Strae Advisory Services

Mark Tompkins

Partner

Since 1996, Mark Tompkins’ involvement within the Denver real estate market has allowed him to form an intricate network of professionals whom Mark is proud to call friends and colleagues. For the majority of that time Mark held senior positions in two private real estate development firms based in Denver.

Mark has been intimately involved in financing and operations of multiple large scale projects involving TIF and metropolitan districts in various municipalities including Denver, Littleton, Westminster, Englewood, and Lakewood. The overall total financings Mark has participated in structuring and executing is in excess of $1 billion. He also was involved in the delivery of more than 1 million square feet of commercial space and over 1,400 residential units, consisting primarily of condominiums and townhomes, ranging from workforce to high end product throughout the metro area.

During two separate periods spanning more than four years, Mark held redevelopment positions for the Denver Urban Renewal Authority (“DURA”). Mark was responsible for underwriting DURA’s potential participation on dozens of proposed projects spanning the gamut of residential, retail, hospitality and office uses. He regularly served as the developer’s primary contact throughout negotiations with DURA, and worked to craft the terms and conditions of DURA’s assistance. Mark actively participated in managing DURA’s $600 million portfolio of public investment leveraging nearly $7 billion in redevelopment projects.

Prior to joining DURA, he served from 2006-2013 as the Chief Operating Officer of Continuum Partners, an internationally acclaimed developer of large mixed-use projects, including the Denver Union Station multi-modal transit hub, and Lakewood’s Belmar project. From 1996-2004 Mark served as VP of Finance for a Vancouver, BC based real estate developer responsible for residential, commercial, and historic rehabilitation projects in the Denver market in excess of $300 million.

Mark is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, with a degree in Business Administration, emphases in Accounting and Finance. Since 2017 Mark has served on ULI Colorado’s executive team as Treasurer, and served as a trustee for the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver 2009-2018. When not working, Mark enjoys time with his wife, Felicity, and their four children, spending countless hours at swim meets and softball games.

Elizabeth Lee

Partner

Elizabeth Lee is a Principal at Strae Advisory Services, and has been advising clients in the real estate industry in Colorado since 2017. Elizabeth has specific expertise in providing strategic and quantitative analysis for some of Denver’s largest placemaking development projects.

Prior to 2017 Elizabeth was a Vice President at JPMorgan Chase at the firm’s Headquarters in New York. She began her career in the midst of the 2008 financial crisis, within JPMorgan’s Investment Bank. She held roles in the Interest Rate Derivatives group focusing on crisis-related project management and operations, as well as the Equity Capital Markets division where she helped originate over $10bn of equity through IPOs and follow-on offerings for consumer retail clients.

From 2012 onward, Elizabeth worked within JPMorgan Chase’s Chief Investment Office and Corporate Treasury Division. In her role, she collaborated closely with senior executive management on risk and asset / liability management strategies across the firm’s $2.5 trillion balance sheet, amidst a changing and challenging regulatory environment during the roll-out of Dodd-Frank Regulations. In particular, she pioneered innovative solutions for measuring and mitigating foreign exchange risk, as well as short term funding and intraday payment liquidity risk for the firm’s global activities.

Originally from the Finger Lakes Region of upstate New York, Elizabeth graduated magna cum laude from The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. with a degree in International Economics and Finance. Elizabeth speaks Spanish and French and is passionate about global citizenship. In 2016 she served as a strategic advisor in the founding of the organization Women Refugee Route (https://www.womenrefugeeroute.org/), a Copenhagen-based international NGO that focuses advocacy efforts to empower women refugees around the world. She has been a proud volunteer with Denver CASA since 2019 (https://denvercasa.org/), and also serves as a Core Organizer for Make4COVID (https://make4covid.co/), a grassroots organization of over 2,000 volunteers dedicated to sourcing PPE for medical workers and front line responders in the Rocky Mountain Region and beyond during the COVID-19 global pandemic.

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ABOUT STRAE ADVISORY SERVICES

Strae Advisory Services is a Denver based real estate consulting firm specializing in the realms of project financial analysis, financing transactions, and litigation support for our clients.

WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO

WE REALIZE ENORMOUS SATISFACTION AND PRIDE IN ADVISING CLIENTS ON REAL ESTATE-RELATED FINANCIAL MATTERS. WE BELIEVE THAT BY CREATING EFFICIENT AND THOUGHTFUL FINANCIAL STRATEGIES THAT SUPPORT SMART GROWTH AND SOUND DESIGN WE CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.